So my questions would be; does Weist share GDL's OLine philosophies, and if not....how the hell is THAT gonna work?
I have no idea what a Cincy receiver's coach from 2012 would think about zone blocking, except that it can work quite well. I just took a look at this clip, and I might be way off, but it sure looks like this run was an inside out zone blocking scheme up front for Abernathy to either hit a wide open hole on the reverse if the DE failed to maintain the hard edge, or be isolated 1-1 in the open field with a DE on a full run. The DE stayed home on the edge, and Abernathy made his move and went right around him to pay dirt. There are other running lanes that could have been taken advantage of, on the same blocking movements of the line and TE, with different backfield packages and plays for the ball carrier. This one was an end around reverse.
We tried to run the same kind of thing many times, and generate the same kind of patterns in creating lanes up front, building off the running game, but we had a lot less success.
The system works, if we're going to run it, we better make sure that the coaches are teaching it effectively to players that can run it effectively and that includes backfield and wideouts (coaches and players) in addition to the OL coaches and players.
